~*~*Two Destinies At A Time~*~*
Taichi and Sora Fights
Trailmon—6:06 pm
Finally, the digi-destined were able to do what they were asked—to go back to the digi-world and save it…but from what?
They went inside the train instead of hanging around in the platform watching the fading scene. It slowly turned dark since the time they have parted from the real world. Takuya took one more glance sadly. He couldn't even say a nice bye to his parents and brother. The scene altered to pitch black when he went inside.
"Hey there!" Taichi greeted when they reached entered the room where the three kids were—a young boy, a blonde girl and a fat, bully-looking boy. They stared at him wondering what to reply.
The girl smiled at him and said, "Hello!" and smiled sweetly at Taichi that made him blush like crazy. Sora sighed and shook her head. Each of them took a seat as the ride went on. Everyone was pretty silent at that time. No camaraderie—just plain silence. But this stillness didn't last that long until the Trailmon suddenly stopped from its high speed, making them shake and fall on the floor as loud "Aah!"s' were heard. But a vision came out in the bodies of those three kids and Takuya. It was a vision of four Digimons-looking creatures. No one noticed it—not even themselves.
"What is wrong with this train?!" Takuya complained, as he held his aching head that hit the chair. "Oh man…"
"Come on, the train has already stopped" Taichi stood and motioned for them to follow him outside. The three kids followed behind them.
Sora watched them leave. She was waiting for the others to leave first. When the last kid was about to leave, she brought him to a halt.
"Yes?" the small boy answered.
"Uh… the name's Sora, Takenouchi Sora," she said. "What a lousy greeting!" she thought. She bent down on the floor and took her hand out for a shake. The small boy smiled at her brightly and shook her hand.
"My name's Tomoki!"
"Oh… Hello Tomoki! We're friends now, right?"
"Well…" he turned his head down timidly and answered with a gentle tone, "Okay…"
Sora smiled and patted his head as she got up. "Come on, they're leaving us" she said and flashed an eye. She held out her hand to grab on. He gripped on it and together they went off the train. But as she lifted her left foot from the train, she wondered why Taichi and the others looked terrified frightened and startled. "What's with your faces?" she asked as she chuckled at their sight. Only Takuya, the blonde girl, Tomoki and the fat, bully looking kids were not affected. "Hey… What's wrong…?" Sora asked once more, now getting anxious. They weren't joking around. It was something nothing to laugh about. As she turned her head to what seemed to be terrorizing, she herself felt shocked. Her jaw hanged open. "What-What happened here?!"
"Is this really the digi-world?" Jou asked.
"It seems to have been destroyed." Takeru mentioned.
"This… this can't be the digi-world!" Taichi stated. He fell on his knees, watching the scene.
There was a big hole in front of them. In fact, there were big holes around them. It was merely a piece of land that stood in the middle of the emptiness they set their feet on. It was separated from another land. There was only a railroad for them to cross on.
The Trailmon didn't moved out yet. He suddenly spoke.
"If you want to cross that thing, cross it yourself" and he left, going back to the opposite side.
"What a lousy Digimon" the fat, bully looking kid said. Taichi nodding, agreed.
"Oh yeah!" Taichi shrieked.
"Eh?" everyone expressed.
"We haven't known each other yet!" he remembered. He meant the three kids that were with them. "My name's Taichi! Yagami Taichi! Nice to meet you!" he greeted. All the seniors chortled under their gasps. Taichi was witty when he did that.
"Anyway, these are my friends!" he introduced them one by one. When he finished, he asked them to introduce them themselves.
"Izumi at your service!" the blonde girl said optimistically.
"My name's Junpei." The fat bully looking kid said.
"And I'm Tomoki"
"Well then, now that we're all friends, let's find a way to get out of this place." Taichi suggested. The three nodded.
All of them sat in a circle to think about what they're going to do. Koushirou was busy with his computer so he wasn't able to suggest any plans.
"How about crossing that railroad." Jou pointed.
They turned to look at the bridge that connects them to the other lands. "Uh…" Tomoki mumbled. "I don't think I'll be able to cross that…"
They turned at him and smiled. "Don't worry Tomoki, you don't need to be scared." Yamato cheered him up, very unlikely of him, talking like that to a boy.
"Yamato's right," Sora added. "Take Taichi's instance"
"Eh?"
"He has the crest of courage because he is that valiant," Taichi grinned, bragging about himself. "You should be like him too" she smiled, sweet enough for Tomoki to smile with.
"Okay…" he nodded, his voice, still a little anxious.
As they were about to cross the railroad, with Taichi in the lead of course, Koushirou sighed, enough for them to heed him.
"What's up with you?" Taichi, stopped by his moan, asked.
Koushirou got up, closed his laptop and elucidated. "I can't get a connection with Gennai," he joined them near the railroad. "Plus, I don't think our digimon's here to pick us up"
"Leave the old man" Taichi said impatiently and set his foot on the rails. "And I'm sure Agumon and the others are excited to see us just as we are"
"I'm not so sure"
Taichi turned his head to stop their conversation and continued his walk.
"Watch out brother" his sister warned. He waved his hand carelessly telling her that he sure heard that. "Brothers…" she thought as she rolled her eyes with bother.
Koushirou was the last one to step on the rails, with Tomoki in front of him. "You okay there little kid?" he asked, worried that he might freak out and fall. Tomoki paused, looked down on the endless pit, gulped and nodded a 'yes' and continued.
Taichi had reached the end of the rail. He watched the scene before him, lots of trees, grass—a forest in short, hoping Agumon would jump out of nowhere and greet him. But nothing happened. There was only the wind to greet him 'welcome', a cold welcome.
Fortunately, they all got across the railroad, unscathed. Tomoki heaved a sigh of relief as he hopped off the rails. Koushirou followed. "Well I don't see our Digimons" Koushirou confirmed, opened his laptop once more and sat on the ground.
"Do they even know we're here?" Takeru questioned, went behind him and watched him open a program.
"That's what I want to know"
The program loaded and showed a map with squares allocating a site of the digi-world. There were a lot of black squares at the bottom of it and white squares on the top. Side buttons are found beside the mouse scroll for the map.
"What do you suppose those black squares are?" Takeru pointed out what he saw.
"Those are the holes in this world," Koushirou answered. He scrolled up the map and found more of the black holes. "I don't see our Digimons near us," he said loudly as he scouted for the other parts of the world. But something caught his eye. "What's this?" he asked himself, looking at a blinking purple square. There were also yellow, orange, green and blue squares. They were aligned; about two to three squares apart, diagonally. He clicked on the purple one, which was the first one he saw but the program suddenly had a pop-up warning. "An error?"
"You have performed an illegal operation," he read aloud. "What did I do?" he shouted with anger with his laptop.
He turned to Taichi, as if asking a silent 'what now?' to him.
Taichi looked down on the ground, his hand under his chin as if he was a sage. "Hm."
"I know!" they all turned to Takuya when he said that. "Let's just continue our journey, after all, we did manage to cross that railroad"
"But…"
"But what?"
"This wasn't intended to be picnic or something like that." Jou reminded them. "We're here to save this world" he finished.
"But we have no choice. Let's just go to the direction where those blinking lights Koushirou saw in his computer. We might find something."
Izumi was kind of confused. She raised her hand to ask a question. "We're supposed to save this world?"
"Weren't you told by your digivices?" She took the same digivice with Takuya but in a different color, purple!
"Is this what you're talking about?"
"Yeah"
"It just told me to go to the train station," she said, looking at the device. "It didn't mention anything about a mission or whatever you call it."
"That's odd" Takuya mumbled.
"Enough about that," Taichi cut their dialogue. "We have to find Agumon and the other Digimons. They might have information about anything we need to know" He walked away, in the lead once more.
"There goes our leader…" Koushirou whimpered, closed his computer and followed him. The usual thing they do.
An hour had elapsed, or so they felt. Yamato had been kicking stones that met his way the whole walk. Jou was busy whistling a common tune. All the others were silent. The four new comers watched the surroundings around them. It WAS their first time to set foot on a different world. Koushirou was still the last one behind, wondering where Tentomon, his Digimon, could be. The woods were thick. The leaves were blocking the sunlight from above. He watched the dark scene, hoping behind those trees, there would be a Digimon he knew so well, "Tentomon…"
Taichi suddenly stopped, making the others bump behind him and wonder why he came to a halt. He stared at the sky. It was turning dim. The stars were about to show as little twinkling lights showed up.
"Here?" Yamato asked; his tone seemed to be disagreeing.
"Why? What's wrong with this place?" Taichi retorted.
Yamato glared at him. "Don't you even know that we have three girls in the group"
Taichi looked at them—his sister, and the one he love, and Izumi. "So? I assume they can take care of themselves?"
"In addition to that, we don't even have tents!" Yamato added, ignoring what Taichi just said recently. "What if some Digimon shows up and attack them? Biyomon's not here to protect Sora, Gatomon's not near to look after Hikari… and Izumi, who would save her?"
Both fell silent. Then Taichi sighed, feeling a bit hopeless with his so-called best friend. "You don't think, do you?" he asked, his voice low, enough for the others not to perceive.
"What do you mean by that…?"
"There're eight of us guys to guard them," Taichi pointed out. "Why are you underestimating your own capabilities?" he questioned, walking around the forest, looking for a nice spot for them to camp out.
"He does have a point" Yamato paced up with Taichi deeper into the forest, so did everyone else. They came upon a small clearing, enough for them to stay.
"We don't have much of a choice." Taichi said, disappointed, looking at it.
"Jou and I will get us some firewood for the fire." Yamato suggested, his arm resting around Jou's shoulders. Jou was looking upset at Yamato, asking him why he just said that. He didn't want to go walking once more but he went anyway.
"I'll get us some food!" Izumi suggested. "Junpei and Tomoki would accompany me."
"NO."
"But…" But before she say another word, Taichi looked at her with his dagger looks. Izumi did not dare to fight with a senior so she kept her mouth after a loud sigh.
"Taichi!" He turned to Sora when he heard her call his name. "Let them have a chance to venture the digi-world!" she insisted.
"And let them stay there where danger lies?" Taichi bounced back a question.
"They're part of the 2nd batch. I do think they have the right to go out as well," Sora answered, still persisting. She walked up to Taichi, her face, almost leaning on his. "They might be kids but they're digi-destined too!"
Taichi stared at her straight to her eyes. He felt silent, looking for an answer to cry. "Look Sora," he started, pushing her on her back. "I'm the leader here. If something happens to them, I'm responsible!"
Taichi's right. Sora cannot deny it but something inside her desires for them to be free. She wanted them to experience what they faced when they were young, four years ago.
"Four years ago…" she said her thoughts in a soft voice, her head down.
"What?"
"Four years ago… your were like that…" she continued. "Stubborn. Hard headed. Always wanted to insist his own ways."
"So what?"
"Even if you're the leader, you can't take away others' dreams" and at a loud tone of voice, their conversation had stopped. Takeru and Hikari, Takuya and Izumi, Junpei and Tomoki, and Koushirou, they were there to see all of it, the start of separation.
Yamato and Jou arrived there late. They just saw their faces, worried, anxious and uneasy. They all faced the two—Sora and Taichi. They whispered to each other guesses what might have happened by the time they were gone.
For the whole night, the two did not spoke to each other. It was uneasy for the others to talk naturally when there is 'that' feeling roaming in the air. Uncomfortable, that is the word that could describe it. Not only it affected their relationship and their friendship, it also affected the others to fell quiet and uneasy, especially those kids that were part of the 2nd batch. Yamato volunteered to look after them while they sleep sound. His younger brother joined him in his night shift and accompanied him.
"Do you think they would get along by morning?" Takeru asked, watching Sora curled up under a tree, sleeping.
"Dunno."
"But you and Taichi usually argue…" Yamato placed his hand on his brother's shoulder, thus, making Takeru silent.
"You're right. Taichi and I do fight a lot. We think differently… but at the end of it, we laugh at our misunderstandings. We don't care about it anymore because we're used to it and we know that everything would end up just like what we used to be." Yamato paused, turned to Taichi who was fast asleep, sitting upright, leaning on a tree with Hikari beside him. "But I don't think the same thing would go for them," nudged his head towards Taichi's direction for Takeru to look. "It's hard to understand what the opposite gender thinks…" turned to Sora and then to Takeru to gaze at his brother's eyes. "And that makes the clash a bit longer."
At that time, Takeru understood, very well. He did not went back to sleep, instead, he too looked after them. Yamato took out his harmonica that he once brought there. He blew the dust off it, rubbed his shirt on it to shine and blew out music from it. The smooth rhythm filled the night air.
It was early morning. A nice breeze greeted the group of kids along with the sun's soft rays. It was time for Yamato to take a little bit of rest, so as with Takeru. Junpei stretched his arms up and smiled at the sun's rays. But it was Sora who woke the earliest unfortunately she wasn't there. She left to look them for some food to consume.
She walked alone in the deep forest. It wasn't creepy, especially having the sun as her guide. Some fruits hanged at the ends of the branches of a tree just meters away from her. She paced up to it. Her hand grabbed one fruit. When she was supposed to be glad that they had food to eat, she frowned sadly at it and thought of what happened last night. "If only I kept my mouth shut, nothing of this would ever happened…" she let a tear crawl on her cheeks as she tightened her grasp on the fruit, which looked like a pear. Quickly, she wiped her eye with her arm, bit on the fruit she was holding and continued on picking up more fruits, not noticing Junpei was right behind her.
"I thought I smelled something" Sora got startled and dropped the fruits on the grass that surrounded the tree. She looked at her back and found Junpei behind her, grinning. "Good morning!"
"It's you…" she smiled faintly at him, started to pick up the dropped fruits. "You're up early…" she commented.
"Haven't you heard of the saying, 'The early bird catches the worm'?" he asked as he helped her with the fruits. Sora giggled, gathered all the fruits she managed to get. "I could carry them for you" Junpei advocated.
"Thanks" Sora placed the fruits on Junpei's hands. "You think that's enough for us?"
He looked at it and counted. "Six?" I think that's enough for me…" and he laughed.
Sora took more since there were eleven of them there and both of them went back together. They found them all awake and were still quiet. It was only Koushirou who wasn't, talking to Jou and Yamato about those blinking lights. Hikari realized them arriving at the scene. She called on them and walked towards them. "Where have you been?" she asked, worried, and her voice, low.
"Huh?"
Hikari didn't repeat her question. She looked at her straight to her eyes, her brows knitted together, anxious.
"I was just out there picking up some fruits for us…" she reasoned and handed out one to her. "Don't worry, it's not poisonous" and she walked away, handing out what she found. Junpei followed her and gave out some of the fruits he carried. Sora threw the second to the last fruit she had to Taichi really hard, her face with angered looks. She went for a tree to lean on, away from him and minded her own business.
There was silence among them. Even Koushirou fell quiet as well. The keyboard was the only thing they could hear, he was busy scanning the digi-map he had in his computer. "More blinking lights." He stated and stopped at the part where five lights were shining at the same square. "But how come they're all together?" he asked himself then munched on his fruit. "And this fruit… how come it tastes like chicken?"
Yamato, who was beside him, got curious and took a bite from it, "Are you kidding me? It tastes like beef"
"I don't know… Mine tastes like pork" Jou commented. And the three boys kept laughing until the new digi-destined's digivices shone and called for the digi-destined.
"Digi-destined." Takuya immediately took out his digivice, so as with the others. "Go to the Mountain of Fire" (Author's note: That's not actually where they headed in the series but, hey, this is a fanfic ^__^ and oh, the place isn't really part of the series)
"Mountain of Fire?" Takuya repeated.
"Where's that?" Izumi asked, turned to the seniors for some answers and placed her digivice back to her side pockets.
"Mountain of Fire…" Koushirou mumbled. "I don't remember any mountain of that name"
"Me neither" Yamato added.
Taichi watched the group silently. He presumed that they really needed his leading skills. But he kept quiet for the meantime. He wanted to know if they could stand together, even without him.
"Wait!" Koushirou snapped. "Maybe I could find that place in the digi-map!" and he quickly opened his laptop for some answers. His fast typing hands pressed the keys that formed the mountain's name and pressed the enter key. The processor searched for the place. Within a sec, the result was released. "Here"
The group gathered behind him to see what he found out. Taichi was left behind, left to watch them from the front.
"Over here" Koushirou guided them on what to look as he point on a specific square. He clicked on it and a picture of it showed up.
A mountain full of lava was what the picture showed. "A mountain that never stops to erupt," as Hikari would call it.
"You may be right, let's just hope that by the time we're there, the mountain stops to explode" Yamato said as he stood up and walked towards Taichi. "For now," he paused, looked behind him, turned back, took Taichi's arm and starts to walk with Taichi being dragged around. "Let our adventure begin"
The group giggled, watching both boys walk away. "It's a good thing Yamato's here to fix up camaraderie problems" Jou commented and he follows them.
"Sometimes, I don't even understand him" Takeru said, pacing up with Jou.
"Brothers…" Hikari joined them. And everyone else followed. Takuya and the other new ones were the last to leave the place. Sora waited them from the front.
At the lead, Yamato and Taichi were mumbling to each other.
"Tell me" Yamato started. "Why can't you accept Sora's point of view?"
"What do you mean?"
"You know—," he was cut short.
"That I'm a lousy leader and I can't be the right person to be in charge of all of you?!" Taichi shrieked. "You're right" his tone now becomes down. "I AM not the one who fits the job. Why don't you take it?" He speeded up with Yamato tagging along.
"That's not what I meant!"
Taichi fell silent, his head down. He wasn't looking where he was going. There was something more important than walking and that's thinking about the team. "Will I leave already? Well, Yamato can take care of them." He thought sadly as his eyes turned watery. By now, he was walking sluggish and Yamato was able to catch him up.
"Look Taichi, I don't want any of the team to be separated or anything like that. Even when we're together, when there's a fight, we seem to be apart. I suppose now you understand what I wanted to tell you" Taichi didn't listen. He felt Yamato's arm rested on his shoulders. "Hey"
"I'll leave"
"You what?!"
"If I remain here, the fight might get worse" Taichi said mumbling. "But if I go, then the team would be back naturally—,"
Yamato hit him hard on the face with his clutched up fist. Taichi fell down on his knees by the impact. "You made the wrong decision," Yamato announced.
"Yamato…" Taichi gawked at him from below. His hand felt the bruise he received from him.
"Now tell me" Yamato said, gripped hard on his fist, "Will you still go?"
Taichi smirked as he got up. He watched Yamato straight to his eyes and suddenly, he stroke him with his clutched fist on his face. "Well, what do you think?"
"I think no" Yamato replied with a punch to his face.
"You're right!" and Taichi gave another punch to him on the other side of his face. Suddenly, they laughed their hearts out. It has been years when they really had a fight—a fist-to-fist fight. Both fell on the floor, still laughing.
"I missed this kind of quarrel we had when we were still young" Taichi nodded in agreement. "I guess you've made up your mind" Yamato assumed.
Taichi watched the blue sky above him and smiled, thinking about what he really wanted in life. "Hm"
"Well?"
"For you, I won't"
Yamato grinned broadly when he heard that. "Well then,"
"AH!" a girl's voice shrieked near them.
When they turned to look who it was, they saw Hikari watching them.
"What did you do?" she asked panicking when she saw them all bruised up.
"Don't worry," Jou calmed her down, placing his hand on her shoulder. "They just had their usual fight"
They watched them help each other up. "Now, Taichi and Sora has got to talk" Yamato announced.
"Eh?" Sora asked.
"What the—?"
"Alone" and with that, the team left both of them behind.
"You think they're ready for this?" Takeru whispered to his brother as they walked ahead of them.
"Personally, I think they'll be okay" Izumi said.
"I think so too," Junpei agreed.
"Sora's been so nice to us" Tomoki joined in. "I think she'll be the one who'll make things better"
The seniors watched the three new digi-destined and listened to what they think. They seemed to understand their team easily and that's what seemed to be a great characteristic of them. Takuya was silent, watching his fellow batch mates. "Is this really the journey I wanted?"
Meanwhile, Taichi and Sora walked slowly on the team's trails. Not one of them seemed to have the mood for this, especially Sora. "Sora…"
Taichi started.
"Don't tell me you asked Yamato to do this for you"
"No… he didn't. I didn't even know he was going to do this for us" he answered. Sora looked at Taichi, her eyes felt sad. "Anyway, I want to apologize for what happened last night"
"…"
"I know my stubbornness can get all wrong and you know… I don't even remember how to be a good leader when I start to become persistent"
"Don't worry." Sora butts in on his speech. "I know that very well"
"Ehehehehe… so… am I…?"
"Forgiven" Sora continued what he said.
"That's great! Now let's go catch them up!"
Sora smiled and nodded. "Stupid Taichi"
But around them, they did not notice what had been watching them the whole time. Suddenly, right in front of them, a ball of fire came towards them. "Exhaust flame!"
"Taichi! Look out!" Sora shouted and pushed him to the ground and both of them fell on their bodies. Quickly, she took out her digivice and it analyzed the Digimon that attacked them. "Guilmon, a rookie leveled Digimon"
"If only Agumon were here…" Taichi hoped. He stood up and glared the Digimon in front of them.
"What do we do now?" Taichi didn't answer. He broke a branch from a bush beside him and readied himself for battle. "Let me guess, you're going to fight that Digimon without Agumon, right?' Sora asked, worriedly.
Taichi sprinted for the red dinosaur looking Digimon, his branch raised up, ready to strike. Guilmon waited for him to reach him, his eyes were red and stern looking. It growled under its breath. Taichi reached him and stroke but it evaded his attack and used it tail to hit him like a whip. "Rrrr…"
Taichi almost fell on the floor but managed to get up. "This Digimon, he reminds me of Agumon…"
"Taichi, stop it" Sora advised but he still didn't listen. "Let's just escape from here"
Taichi closed his ears from her. He was busy with the Digimon. He threw his branch on the ground and started to run towards it. It opened its mouth and fire started to gather inside it. "Don't you know fire was Agumon's element?" Taichi shouted at it, his arms rose in the air. "AAAAAhhh"
"Exhaust flame!"
Taichi jumped aside and was able to escape the fire. "Hah! Is that the best you can do?" he bragged and wrestled with it. "Now, leave us and your life shall be spared"
Guilmon's eyes changed to its innocent look. "What are you doing?" it asked. His voice was baby like and he actually looked cute that way.
"What—?"
"Get off me" it demanded and kicked Taichi off. "Sorry to disturb you" and he left.
"Well that was an awfully cute Digimon" Sora claimed and held her hand out for Taichi to grab.
"You call that thing cute?" Taichi asked, confused, and took her hand and stood up.
Jou arrived at the scene and saw them together, fine. "What happened here?" his voice worried. Behind him was the team, running towards them.
"We saw orangey light from here" Izumi said.
"That's why we came back here because we thought something might've happened to the both of you" Takuya explained.
"Nothing serious" Sora answered. This made the team relieved.
"Well then, I see both of you back to normal" Koushirou said as he turned to the opposite side to continue their journey. Taichi and Sora blushed. "Now, let's go back to what we have started." He meant their journey and started walking.
"Hey wait!" Koushirou paused and looked behind him. Taichi came running towards his direction. "I get to lead"
"Whatever…" Koushirou rolled his eyes, he watched Taichi took over him and smiled.
~~~
End of chapter
~~~
Where are all your reviews guys?! I didn't receive any review for the 2nd chapter, well, only one. But that's not enough!!! Please submit more reviews! I'm begging you! If you won't, no chapter four! : D Ahahahaha!!!
REVIEWS!!!
